Tuesday, October 28, 2008

A recent note from Kirkepiscatoid moves me to post a little about what my day job entails. Of course, like any middle manager, my job entails meetings and reports and seriously boring stuff. I serve as the preservation administrator for the Archives. That entails everything from training folks about to handle our documents, to monitoring temperature/humidity and bugs, to answering queries from the public and local government, to prioritizing things that will come into our conservation lab.

And sometimes it includes way cool stuff, as it did when we did this conservation job in St. Louis on a fine 19th-century architectural drawing. Generally, we bring items into our conservation lab. But this one was just too big and fragile, so we did the conservation work in situ.

Here's where we were working, in a marvelous 1885 conservatory.

First, we had to analyze the drawing and determine an approach to its treatment.

Then we set to work. There were actually three of us working on the drawing, but my two colleagues are profoundly camera-shy, so I'll only post photos of my work.

We were working in a lovely space with lovely natural lighting. This building had originally been a conservatory, so it had a lot of natural lighting. In the room where we worked, the windows were particularly lovely.

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About Me

I'm a progressive Episcopalian raised in the South and now (thanks to a job change) living in the conservative Midwest. I worship at Grace Episcopal Church in Jefferson City. I love the Episcopal Church, which rescued me from a life of wandering meaningless and gave me a way to explore my faith and belief in God.
On any given topic, I am prone to yammer-on way too long. Sometimes I ponder way more than I should.
A blog-friend said that I demonstrate a "muscled love for our Church." I hope I can live up to that.
And right now I'm pondering Blogger's challenge to define myself in 1200 characters.